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"Sunshine on My Shoulders"
Side A of 1974 US single release
Single by John Denver
from the album Poems, Prayers & Promises
A-side"I'd Rather Be a Cowboy" (original)
B-side"Around and Around" (reissue)
ReleasedMay 1973 (original)
October 22, 1973 (reissue)
Recorded1971
Genre
  • Folk[1]
  • country[2]
  • soft rock[3]
Length3:18 (Single version)
5:12 (Album version)
LabelRCA Records
Songwriter(s)
  • John Denver
  • Dick Kniss
  • Mike Taylor
Producer(s)Milt Okun
John Denver singles chronology
"Rocky Mountain High"
(1973)
"Sunshine on My Shoulders"
(1973)
"Annie's Song"
(1974)

"Sunshine on My Shoulders" (sometimes titled simply "Sunshine") is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971's Poems, Prayers & Promises and later, as a single in 1973. It went to No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974.

  1. ^ Breihan, Tom (May 13, 2019). "The Number Ones: John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 19, 2023. And while it's kind of a cynical move to add overdubbed strings to an acoustic folk song that you're trying to get onto the radio...
  2. ^ Stanley, Bob (September 13, 2013). "Beyond the Blue Horizon: Country and Western". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
  3. ^ Segretto, Mike (2022). "1974". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. pp. 296–297. ISBN 9781493064601.

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